December 26, 2011
Yeeeaah guuuuy, so Pyramid Ale Faproom in the Oakland airport - that name just reeks of quality, doesn’t it? Let me lay my cards on the table off the bat: Pyramid doesn’t brew good beer. Sure they’ve won GABF awards for beers like their Apricot Ale, but you know what should’ve won an award instead? Whatever drug the judges who gave out that award were on. Must’ve had them seeing some psychedelic shit, because that beer, along with most of Pyramid’s selection, is mediocre at best. So they had 4 beers on tap here. No need to list them, as they were very standard and unexciting. They cost $8 apiece for a pint, with the option for a low-priced shot to go with it. Hey, bland, crappy beer and a shot of Jäger on the side: Breakfast of champions, right? Service and food are uninspired, which is to be expected for an airport, particularly Oakland airport, where the overly surly employees had just caused me to miss my flight. At least this bar opens early, like 8am, so you can drown your sorrows from being in this pitiful excuse for an airport bright and early! Cheers!

October 12, 2009
Right after the security check-in at terminal 2. Beer that isn’t BMC is a welcome sight (although they do have a BMC tap or two). Standard Pyramid taps with one seasonal. Largish, and crowded sitting area, full bar. The bartenders are always extremely unfriendly, and they have an asinine policy of carding absolutely EVERYONE (including the 70 year old next to me). Ridiculous! They also know absolutely nothing about their beer. I’ll head over to the Gordon Biersch around the corner in the future.